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[Apr. 24th, 2024|12:23 am] |
"The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade."
~ Anthony Trollope |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2024|02:43 am] |
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
~ James Anthony Froude |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2024|05:15 am] |
"Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind."
~ Immanuel Kant |
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[Apr. 21st, 2024|12:50 am] |
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
~ Charlotte Bronte |
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[Apr. 20th, 2024|04:56 am] |
"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration."
~ Bram Stoker (Dracula) |
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[Apr. 19th, 2024|04:38 am] |
"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."
~ Lord Byron |
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[Apr. 18th, 2024|02:22 am] |
"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
~ Richard Harding Davis |
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[Apr. 17th, 2024|12:56 am] |
"Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery."
~ William Gilmore Simms |
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[Apr. 16th, 2024|01:51 am] |
"The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant."
~ Charlie Chaplin |
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[Apr. 15th, 2024|01:18 am] |
"Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else."
~ Leonardo da Vinci |
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[Apr. 14th, 2024|12:19 am] |
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
~ B. R. Ambedkar |
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[Apr. 13th, 2024|05:04 am] |
"I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . 'Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.' That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters."
~ Samuel Beckett |
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[Apr. 12th, 2024|02:59 am] |
"My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted."
~ Beverly Cleary |
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[Apr. 11th, 2024|07:50 am] |
"Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires."
~ Edward Everett |
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